Have you been unemployed for months? Then maybe looking for work from home ideas and jobs you can do online is worth investigating. You need to be careful though. There may be millions of success stories online who made it big with an online business that allowed them to work from home. But it takes more than basic computer skills and the willingness to learn new things to be successful. You’ve got to be prepared to work hard and be very determined.

After all, if making money online working from home was as easy as some with have us believe then everybody would be doing it.

The entire jobs market is moving towards a telecommuting future

Telecommuting is now widely practiced from around the globe. It is regarded as the future of work by many employment and industry experts. Why travel for hours every week from home to an office when you can perform the same work telecommuting or as a freelancer working from a home office of coffee shop. It’s now easier than ever to keep in touch with your coworkers and employers online, whether via phone, email, Skye or even social media.

Here are some of the online jobs that allow you to work from home and form work around your life, rather than the other way round.

Consultant

If you have the passion and drive to excel in a certain field then you might be able to start a business working from home as a consultant. To become an online consultant, you can sign up with a third-party service or just make your own consulting website. While to begin with you may only earn $20 – $25 per hour, once you build up your knowledge and skills that amount can grow fast. Who knows. One day you could be like Mark Cuban, the serial entrepreneur and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, who charges as much as $166 per minute!

Life Coach

As an online Life Coach your role is to guide your clients to help them improve their relationships, reach their financial goals, work through transitions and find their ideal careers. But first and foremost you must determine if you’d make a good life coach. You must know how to communicate so that can people could look up to you for advice on variety of topics. You can offer your expertise to others who are looking for guidance in certain aspects of their lives.

Podcast Editing

If you have some tech audio editing skills then maybe you can learn to edit a few podcast recordings. Your job will entail cleaning up audio interview files, removing background noise, assisting in identifying suitable royalty free music, providing audio consultation for future podcasts and uploading completed files to iTunes for distribution.

Online Support Jobs

You’ll need to have great communication skill to handle support jobs, assisting customer’s with help support through email, chat and phone. All online companies these days need to provide support to their customers. At Weebly, for example, you will get paid to provide email replies and support to their customers. You can work part time for 20-25 hours per week for an average of $17 per hour.

Web Development Jobs

If you’ve got programming and web design skills, you can work from home providing web development work. These jobs are not hard to find, but it can be difficult to get hired. Having a list of job resources at your fingertips will help you find more jobs to apply for, which can lead to more call backs and job offers.

These 5 online jobs should give you some ideas on ways you can earn a part time or full time income working from home. As always, make sure you watch out for scams – never paid money upfront for any kind of training and if an opportunity sounds too good to be true, it probably is. But if you’re prepared to work hard and be persistent, being able to work from home looks set to be one of the dominant employment opportunities in the future.

In an unstable economy where job security is fragile, many people dream of being able to run an internet business from home, where you can choose your own hours and earn an income based on your hard work and initiative. With this in mind, there’s no end of ‘push button’ ‘make millions overnight’ internet marketing ‘programs’ waiting to take your money, without really telling you how you can actually setup a profitable online business.

This is why I had a heavy amount of scepticism when taking a look at the ‘Bring The Fresh’ marketing program. But it appears my scepticism was misplaced.

Unlike many of the so called ‘internet gurus’ out there, the guys behind Bring the Fresh actually know what they’re talking about. Kelly Felix and Mike Long are well known within the internet marketing community, both for their success in setting up money generating websites and for their no nonsense approach, which swipes aside the hype to tell you what actually works.

The Bring the Fresh program consists of a step by step ‘roadmap’ to building a profitable website. This includes everything you need to know about identifying a niche, building the website, driving traffic and monetisation.

Admittedly, you could probably find some of the information for free on the internet. But what the program does is collect it all together, along with their own expert insights, with a series of videos by Kelly and Mike to show you exactly what to do. Trying to piece everything together yourself could take days, if not weeks, and you still wouldn’t have a clear idea about where to even get started (trust me, I know).

But where Bring the Juice really justifies its price tag is that the programs creators are on hand to answer your questions personally. As a member of the program you can access to the forums where you can ask questions and gain the advice of Kelly and Mike, along with other members of the program.

There are no end of success stories of people earning a fortune through the Bring the Fresh program, and if I was starting out in internet marketing again I’d definitely sign up because it could have saved me weeks, if not months, of trying to piece together all the information online.

Do you have quick fingers? Can you hammer out mountains of words on the keyboard, quickly and accurately? If so, you might want to start a business doing general transcription work from home. You can choose when to work, for how many hours and gain all the lifestyle benefits of running a home-based business.

What’s more, for general transcription work, you don’t need any official qualifications. All you need to get started is a PC, an internet connection, a pair of headphones and a strong work ethic.

Who needs transcription work?

A lot of people assume that transcription work means medical transcriptions. But these days all sorts of businesses are in need of people to convert audio files into written documents. This includes businesses that want meetings transcribed, internet marketers to transcribe webinars, podcasters to create accompanying transcripts, insurance companies and more. In fact, the market for people wishing to do transcription work from home is huge.

What’s more, in the general transcription field you don’t need to understand medical or legal terminology to get started. All you need is a quick typing speed (which you can learn to improve, if it isn’t quick enough already) and a willingness to work hard for your clients.

How can I launch a home-based transcription business?

As mentioned, you don’t need any official qualifications or special equipment to get started. So you can launch a home based business providing transcription services almost immediately. But the catch, as always when launching a new enterprise, is going to be finding clients that can provide you with regular work and avoid the risks that can sink your business.

A quick search on Google will reveal a number of freelance bidding websites and transcription agencies that hire audio transcribers working from home. While they advertise plenty of jobs, the problem is that you’re going to be competing with 100s of other transcribers from across the country, and maybe even abroad. So your job proposals and marketing will need to be top notch if you want to get picked.

What’s more, simply mail bombing your resume to as many agencies and transcribing job websites you can find isn’t going to cut it. You also need to know how to pitch for work, how to provide a contract that protects you from unscrupulous employers and how much to charge.

Give your transcription business a running start

Leva Duell is a transcribing veteran, having run her transcription business from home for over 15 years. She’s more than aware of the pitfalls to avoid and how to cope with the challenges that can force many aspiring transcribers to give up before they’ve even finished their first paying gig.

This start-up kit provides all the information, marketing material and documents you need to get your home based transcription business off and running.

Her transcription business starter kit includes:

An insider step-by-step guide to getting started

Samples of verbatim, edited and intelligent verbatim transcription work

A guide on how to transcribe quickly and accurately, including all the tricks and time-saving tactics gained over a 15 year career in transcribing

Promotional materials to send to agencies and employers, including prewritten promotional letters, promotional postcards and business cards

Information on how to get high-quality transcription software for free (and legally!)

Little known secrets for getting clients

A client agreement and contractor agreement to gain legal protection

How to estimate projects and how to get pricing right, where you get a fair rate and you don’t scare off the client

How to apply for transcription jobs even when you don’t have any experience

How to generate repeat business and referrals once you’ve found clients

How to increase your typing speed, and consequently your income

So as you can see, everything you need to know is covered in Leva Duell’s step-by-step course on starting a transcription business from home. The information it provides will ensure that you avoid the risks when just getting started, such as knowing what to charge, submitting a legally protective contract and the marketing material you’ll need to acquire clients.

What’s more, the business startup kit is supplied with a two-month guarantee. So if you find it doesn’t help you to launch a profitable transcription business from home then you can simply ask for your money back and look for home based job opportunities elsewhere.

Disclaimer – the links in this article to Leva Duelll’s ‘General Transcription Business in a Box’ are affiliate links. However, on the site you can signup for a free weekly newsletter which tells you how to avoid transcription job scams and provides advice on how to start and run your business. So her site’s worth checking out for the newsletter alone if doing transcription work from home interest you.

Managing a home based business can become really challenging fast. Without a boss to turn to, there are many important business decisions you have to make that can impact the future of your company.

A common mistake made by people when they start a new business working from home is they overthink every decision. This is natural when you have nobody to bounce ideas off. But too much ruminating and worrying about a decision can slow than the mental process and even lead to making the wrong move.

That fear of failure itself is caused by overthinking. Most successful home based business owners follow their intuition. Sometimes you just have to follow your instincts and know when you feel its right.

5 Tips for Better Home Based Business Decision Making

Trust your gut – Yes, every decision is crucial in running a business working from home but if you always calculate every decision you make you will end up worrying and it does takes vital space in your working memory. If you are going to break down and dissect every component of making that choice then you can no longer efficiently process the information needed.

Be instinctual – Do not let stress takes over you. Overthinking is the number one stress builder. If you already have defined and assessed every aspect of your home based business, don’t dwell on it for too long. Sometimes, every hour and every second counts. Know when to move forward and pull the trigger.

Stop thinking about the future – Deal with your problems one at a time. Most of us would think ahead of ourselves and set future plans a month or a year ahead. You should be more concerned on how you will reach your daily goals for your home based business.

Seek guidance – Every entrepreneur needs a mentor that has more knowledge and experience than you. Don’t be afraid to ask for help, you might need them when you least expect it.

Have fun -Treat yourself every once in a while. A refreshed mind can really make a difference when making a tough decision.

Do not be afraid to make mistakes. I once read that the difference between a mediocre and a successful home based businessman is that the latter do not commit the same mistakes twice.

Being able to work from home stuffing envelope seems like an easy way to make a living. This is what the ads suggest anyway, designed to appeal to online job seekers, senior citizens, retirees, moms and other people looking to make a second income or to contribute to the household builds.

Working from home stuffing envelopes, however, is probably one of the oldest schemes swarming around the web and on classified jobs boards. While some ads might be legit, you’ll often see requirements like having to pay for a nominal startup fee for training, admin costs or other mysterious charges.

So in answer to the question, can you really make good money work from home stuffing envelopes, in most cases the answer is ‘no;.

If you closely analyze the job opportunity, machines are much more efficient at stuffing envelopes than people and it’s more practical to email people these days then send letters. It doesn’t really make sense – why would companies spend more on hiring people just to stuff envelopes when they can save a lot of money just sending them through peoples email address or buying a machine? This is one of the reason why work from home offers stuffing envelopes is quite often likely to be a scam.

Warning signs that a work from home stuffing envelopes job may be a scam

With the present economy, businesses are cutting costs and downsizing. More moms are looking for ways to help out their husbands with the bills and their children’s education. Working at home seems to be the most ideal way to find jobs, as you get to work from the comfort of your own home, saving on gas, clothing and commuting expenses. There are still hundreds and thousands of legitimate jobs online but there also millions of bogus jobs.

Just be aware of a few warning signs that a work from home job stuffing envelopes might be a scam:

No contact info. No email. No phone. No address.

If they do have a phone number no one ever answers it.

If they have an address it’s a P.O. Box.

They ask for money before they’ll tell you anything.

They promise you the world, or at least tons of cash.

It’s still possible that a job stuffing envelopes is legit. But it pays to be cautious. As always, if an opportunity sounds too good to be true, it probably is, and the only real way to make money online or in the real world is through hard work and providing services that people and businesses really need.

For many people, becoming a freelance writer sounds like a dream job. You can work from home in your pyjamas, and wile away the hours pouring your creative talents into writing for paying clients.

And it’s indeed true that this dream job is a reality for many people. The internet has made it possible to work from home writing for clients all over the world. But I need to offer a note of caution (and I should know, because I’m a freelance copywriter myself) that it’s a competitive world out there.

Yes, the internet has expanded your potential client base to the world, but it’s also magnified the competition. Now anybody who can string a few words together can work from home as a freelance writer and compete for the work that’s out there. But there are things you can do to improve your chances of attracting clients.

Here are my top five tips for anybody wishing to work home as a freelance writer:

Create a portfolio – Potential clients will want to see examples of your work. So if you don’t already have samples from previous jobs, write some press releases, articles, brochures and sales letters you can use to show off your writing skills.

Get some training – If you are starting from scratch in your freelance writing career, you will need to teach yourself some the basics, such as how to write a press release, correct grammar usage and how to structure an article. You should be able to find books on copywriting in your local library or buy them from Amazon or consider taking a work from home copywriting course to brush up your skills.

Decide what type of freelance writing to specialise in – Sales writing takes a lot of practice, knowledge and experience. Clients wont be impressed if the writing you provide fails to generate them any sales. So if you are new to freelance writing, it is sensible to start with easier writing jobs, like writing press releases, blog posts and articles as you build your skills and experience.

Setup a website – Having a website will give you a more professional image and a competitive advantage when it comes to bidding for work. These days it is easy and inexpensive to do. You can buy hosting with Hostgator for less than $4/month, upload WordPress (free blogging/website software) and get a professional looking theme from Themeforest to create an online portfolio. If you start a blog you might even attract clients through the search engines (as I have done with my copywriter website).

Where to find freelance writing jobs – You could try approaching local marketing agencies and local businesses to see whether they need help writing press releases and marketing collateral. When looking for freelance writing jobs online your best bet is to try freelance bidding websites like Elance. Be warned though that competition is fierce and low bidders can force rates down. But Elance and other bidding website sites are a good place to find freelance writing jobs as they give you an opportunity to build your portfolio, get experience and connect with clients. In fact, I still write for many of the clients I found in Elance when I started off freelance writing six years ago.

So as you might have gathered, it takes hard work and perseverance if you want to work from home in freelance writing. It can also take a while to build up your portfolio and experience, so don’t give up your day job thinking you can make a success of it overnight.

But if you are prepared to work at it, becoming a freelance writer can offer a rewarding and interesting career along with all the benefits of being able to work from home and fit your work schedule around your life, rather than the other way round.

Good luck!

Disclaimer – The links in this article are affiliate links, including the links to my own website, I guess.

Are there really any “work from home online jobs” that aren’t scams? Some of my relatives and friends often wonder if my online job is legit. They are curious but at the same time doubtful about the ability to make money over the internet. I try not to make a long explanation because most of them are not internet savvy and they wouldn’t understand anyway. I simply tell them that I get paid to work from home doing online jobs for business owners and stay away from online scams and look for legit oppotunities.

If you are planning to look for a work from home online job to supplement your income, the internet is a good option. But you have to be cautious to avoid the scams on the web. You should know how to differentiate what is a legitimate work from home online job and what’s not. Most job offers that promise crazy amounts of weekly or monthly pay are scams. Always do backgrounds check on the company that you are going to apply for and never give out personal information or fees online.

But there are plenty of real work from home online jobs out there. Here’s my top five:

Work from home online job 1 – Home Agent

If you are comfortable talking with stranger through the phone then maybe this job is for you. A home agent is basically a person who works from home online handling customer communications and providing customer service. You can be an independent contractor or apply right to the source like Convergys, TeleTech and Sitel. These companies provide training and coaching. They also treat their home based workers like a regular employee with regular hours and health benefits and even provide vacation with pay. However, if you want to be an independent contractor try sites like LiveOps, Odesk and Elance.

Work from home online job 2 – Freelancer

If you already have a set of skills but are having a hard time finding employers then you can visit Elance, Guru and FreelanceSwitch. You can either search for jobs that match your specific skills or post your resume with a detailed description of yourself and your experiences and let the employers find you.

Work from home online job 3 – E-Book Author

If you are fond of writing but doesn’t really know how to earn some cash out of it. Then try publishing some of your stories on Wattpad. It has been referred to as the YouTube of writing because of the way it enables authors to share their work with the world. Although the site doesn’t really give you compensation on every book or chapter you publish on the site, I have met a few lucky people that were noticed by various film outfits.

You also become a published author writing books for Kindle. It’s a competitive market, but with a good story and writing skills anything is possible.

Work from home online job 4 – Medical Transcriptionist

The good thing about being an online transcriptionist is having the flexibility to manage your own work. You can choose whatever time of the day you wish to work and you can easily take days off when you want to go off with your family and with other commitments. This is perfect for parents who have young children to look after at home. All you need is a pair of headset, a working computer/laptop and a minimum typing speed of 40wpm.

Work from home online job 5 – Medical Biller

The job requires one to create a relationship with patient accounts without necessarily coming into physical contact with any patients. They work directly with the insurance companies to process medical bills incurred by patients and ensure that the respective health care providers are compensated for their services rendered.

Becoming a freight broker is a great opportunity to start a new business with low startup costs and low prior experience requirements

In this post I discuss how to become a freight broker with no experience, and potentially earn a six figure income by matching shipping containers to freight from your home office.

While it takes time to learn the ropes and get established, some freight brokers earn hundreds of thousands a year from the comfort of their home based office. It’s a seriously lucrative industry to get into, and the best part is that no prior experience is required.

What’s more, the setup costs are low, you don’t need any employees and there are few regulatory hoops to jump through. In fact, all you need is a phone, a computer with an internet connection and a fax machine and you can earn some serious commission.

If you want to know how to become a freight broker, read on…

What does a freight broker do?

Look at all the items in your room or office. Nothing got there by magic. Whether it’s printer paper, your desk or the pictures on the wall, everything had to be moved from where it was manufactured to retail outlets for people to buy them. This is a journey every product has to take. So as you can imagine, the freight industry clocks up some serious figures working out how to get object A to place B.

To keep their profit margins as high as possible, shippers need to find the best carrier offering the best rate. This is where freight brokers come in. The freight broker is essentially a middle man whose job it is to match the shipper’s freight with the best available truck. In exchange for finding shipper’s the best rate that can save them money, freight brokers can commission of 10-35 percent on the cost of the shipment. When you’re matching multiple shippers and carriers per day, this can amount to some serious profit.

The commission you earn all hinges on how much you charge the shipper. So, for example, if you find a carrier costing $2000 and you can match it to a shipper whom you charge $2500 then you can pocket $500 in profit. As you can see, the potential earnings can be huge. In fact, salaries of freight brokers, once established, are estimated to be as high as $175,000-300,000 per year.

How can I learn to become a freight broker?

Before the 1970s the freight brokerage industry was a very closed business. There were a lot of regulatory restrictions on who could operate as a freight broker. But since then these restrictions have been lifted, enabling entrepreneurial types to learn the trade and set themselves up in business in third party logistics. In fact, many of the multimillion dollar freight brokerage companies began life as a lone broker working from home.

Nowadays, literally anyone can get started as a freight broker. But in order to do it successfully you need a lot of know-how and insider information. It’s not something you’ll be able to figure out easily on your own or from reading a few articles on the internet.

There are a number of freight broker schools where you can train to become a freight broker. Some are good, whereas others are not. So it’s wise to do your due diligence and to research a freight broker school thoroughly before you stump up the cash. And that’s where you might be put off pursuing such a home based business, because freight broker schools can be expensive. Many can charge $500 per day, with training often running for a week. This means you may need to spend $2500+ just to find out how to do the job without any guarantee that you’ll be successful once you start up on your own. That also doesn’t include the 1000s of miles you might need to travel and the cost of airfares and accommodation just to attend.

Learn how to become a freight broker from home

Another option is to harness the benefits of the internet and to train how to become a freight broker from home.

Dennis Brown is the CEO of his own third party logistics company and racks up millions in sales every year as a freight broker. But before he was successful, he spent months researching the industry to find out what it would take to become a freight broker. This included spending $10,000 on personal training from a consultant just to learn the ropes.

Brown has now been trading successfully since 2004, and in 2008 had the third fastest growing logistics company in the US. He’s been at the coalface for a long time and knows the industry inside out. He now provides training to help others to join him in the industry and to find out how to become a freight broker successfully.

Learn the trade from someone who has created a multi-million dollar freight haulage business from scratch

To help others to gain the benefits of his insights and training, Brown created an online training program on how to become a freight broker. The course comprises of 45 lessons which teach you everything you need to know on how to build a freight brokerage business from scratch. This includes how to acquire customers, how to apply for the freight broker license, how to find and contact shippers and how to properly dispatch and track freight.

Included in the course are video tutorials, all the forms and agreements you need to get started, ongoing support and he even provides you with your own template for launching a freight brokerage website.

The money saving alternative to attending a freight brokerage school

At $98 Dennis Brown’s freight broker training course is a mere fraction of the time and money you’d have to spend attending a freight brokerage school. And with a 60 day money back guarantee you’re free to try the course to find out if it’s for you. If not, you simply ask for your money back.

There are few work from home business opportunities as potentially lucrative and invigorating as starting a freight broker business. If you enjoy working at a fast paced, have good organisational skills and a willingness to learn, then it could be the perfect home based business opportunity for you. And remember, no prior experience is necessary and the setup costs are low. You just need a computer, telephone, internet and some drive and you could be on your way to earning a six figure salary working from home.

Disclaimer – the link in this article to Dennis Brown’s program is an affiliate link. This means I earn commission if you decide to take his course. But this shouldn’t put you off taking advantage of the opportunity his training program can be for starting your own home based business if you are motivated and want to earn an income based on your own endeavours. Remember, if you’re not happy with the quality of the training, simply ask for your money back.

According to a CBS Denver report, ‘For every one legitimate work-at-home job posted online, there are about 70 scams.’ If you’ve spent any time trawling online jobs boards and classifieds looking for remote work from home opportunities then this statistic might not come as a surprise.

The fact is that millions of people (and millions more every year) want to gain the work/life balance benefits of being able to do work on the internet from home. But as always in life, tricksters, scam artists and unethical employers have seized on this demand as an opportunity to make money.

The stuffing envelopes scam, which dates back to the depression era of the 1920s, is still very much alive today on the internet. Scammers will prey on desperation, greed and hope, so if a work on the internet from home opportunity sounds too good to be true it probably is.

To help you avoid being one of the many people that falls prey to their tricks, here are my top 8 tips for avoiding work from home scams:

1. Don’t pay money upfront – Any work from home opportunity that asks for money upfront could well be a scam, whether the money is for registration, training, supplies or processing fees. No ethical employer would expect you to pay them before they pay you.

2. Speak with someone – A legit employer of remote workers will happily discuss the work from home opportunity with you over the phone. Scammers won’t.

3.Conduct background checks – Google the company’s name with the word ‘scam’ next to it to see whether anybody that’s been tricked into a non-legit work from home job has an axe to grind.

4.Check references – If your search on Google doesn’t reveal anything but you’re still suspicious, ask to speak to another internet employee of the company. If they can’t then your suspicions might be well founded.

5. Use ethical search terms – When searching for work on the internet jobs look for ‘remote jobs’, ‘telework’ or ‘telecommute’ rather than ‘work from home’ because these are terms less likely to be used by scammers when posting jobs where you can work on the internet from home.

6.Find out exactly what you’ll be paid – There’s no shortage of work from home opportunities promising you’ll earn $100s for a few hours work. Rather than trust these vague figures, ask them to explain exactly how much you will be paid and how your pay is calculated. This will likely reveal the holes in their sales pitch.

7. Jobs to avoid – Work from home jobs to avoid or be suspicious of are assembly jobs, data entry (when you have to pay for a starter kit), processing claims or emails and, of course, stuffing envelopes (businesses have postage machines these days!).

8. Avoid multi-level marketing online jobs – These are essentially pyramid schemes whereby the initial offer is to sell their products and services for a profit but then leads to recruiting more people to the scheme instead.

Hopefully, these tips should help you avoid some of the work from home scams out there and give you a clearer idea on the market for jobs where you can work on the internet. Remote working is becoming a lifestyle choice for millions every year and there are real opportunities to do online work from home, a subject which you can learn more about on this very website.

Being able to work on the net from home is an attractive prospect. You can live a much better/work life balance and can rely on your own ingenuity to build a successful and rewarding career.

But before you start daydreaming about working on your laptop in coffee shops or in the garden, you first have to find enough online work from home jobs to support yourself.

So where to look?

If you’re just starting out a good place to look for work on the net jobs are freelance work bidding websites, like Elance, Guru or Peopleperhour. On these websites you’ll find literally 1000s of companies looking for people that work on the net from home. This includes data entry, virtual assistant tasks, freelance writing and web development.

The only problem is that, just like bees to honey, these websites also attract 1000s of people, just like you, looking for jobs where they work on the net. This means that pay can often be low, with bidders often offering rock bottom rates to secure the work.

Constantly bidding for low paying jobs isn’t going to give you the dream work on the net lifestyle you’re looking for over the long-term. You‘ll simply find yourself working crazy hours to pay the rent or turning in substandard work.

However, freelance bidding websites are a good place for building up your experience, portfolio and contacts.

Another option would be to target the less popular freelance bidding websites which have less competition. There might be fewer work on the net jobs to choose from but with fewer bidders to compete with you might find more success. Smaller sites to target include Project4Hire and Net4ManPower.

Grow your brand to find higher paying work on the net clients

Once you’ve built up your experience and portfolio, and want to move your work from home career up the pay scale, you want to start thinking about building your online brand:

1) Create a professional looking website that tells potential clients about why they should hire you, your experience and portfolio samples. Remember, you can get amazing looking WordPress themes which you can easily customise at Themeforest for less than $40.

2) Network on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Tell your friends and contacts about your new work on the net from home business (just make sure you do it casually rather than spam everyone with hard sell messages).

3) Join relevant groups in social media sites and forums, and make relevant comments that add to the discussion (again, don’t spam as this will harm your reputation and probably just get your comments deleted). Include your website address in your signature to build up links to your website and so people know where they can find more information about this intelligent person that just made a very insightful comment.

4) Everyone loves a freebie, so consider what you can give away that people will share and spread awareness of your brand. This could be an eBook, guest blog post or YouTube video talking about a common business problem.

If you continue building your reputation through pushing out valuable content people want to share, then gradually you should start to attract higher paying clients that want you for your expertise (rather than because you’re a cheap option).

So whatever stage your work on the net career is at, there are lots of things you can be doing to find clients and attain the work from home dream.

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